Let’s go to the next activity: I called it every day\every week planning. These periods cannot be separated as they’re going hand by hand through the planning process. We create plans for a week and control it on every day basis. Some key moments of this type of planning are:…
As promised I’m going to describe main reports that are based on Project and Scenarios work items and give me possibility easily to analyze my projects portfolio and resource workload. Of course you can say that these reports can be easily received from MS Project Server, but it rather expensive…
Project is a separate work item that picks out activities taking more than 200 hours of work, monitored by business leaders and maintained following project methodology. All these activities are passed through special survey and those who were determined as projects proceed using all points of project methodology, others are…
In TFS 2008 work items do not have parent-child relationships also it is impossible to add links in MS Excel, so it was decided by me to group work items using separate work item field, not link mechanism. As I’ve written before we have three different work items Projects (top…
In this post I want to say some words, why I’ve decided to use TFS rather than our local task registration system RRP. The following table concentrates on main points that influence my decision: And on top of that in TFS we have Build Machine, Check-In policies, integration with Visual…
Deployment tab is used to manage deployment process. I use this information in several reports, the main of them are about unplanned deployments. The following fields are placed on this tab: Deploy Status: Send to Deployment – this status is set by developer when the task is tested and ready…
Additional analyses of bugs root cause. I use this tab for analysis from where the bug has come. The analysis is done based on the source code changes – I go through versions and find the change that causes the bug. I have a number of reports that use the…
In this and several future posts I would like to cover what I have created new in TFS in order to give me additional tools for planning and analysis. Additional information for planning: Business Priority field – directly puts the Task into single sphere. It has different filling rules for…
As I promised in the previous post, below you can find the description of all fields that come to TFS Work Item from our local system RRP. Let’s call TFS Work Item that comes from RRP in one word – Task. Title – short name of the work item. RRP…
I’d like to start my blog and speak about Team Foundation Server. How we use it in our work, how it helps us to do developing. It will be focused on TFS reports and their ability to turn planning and analysis processes from boring and hardworking to smart and simple….